Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Muslims and others reacted vigorously and emotionally to President Trump’s announcement that he will withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris climate change agreement.

Shimon Peres, the former president and prime minister of Israel, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for the Oslo Accords he negotiated with Palestinians in 1993, died Wednesday (Sept. 28) after a stroke.

As President Barack Obama met with Southeast Asian heads of state in California in mid-February, religious leaders from many of the same countries gathered in Taiwan to discuss persecution in the region.